Air by David Lanz & Kristin Amarie

 

Air

By

David Lanz & Kristin Amarie

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

I have a feeling, an honest feeling, which whilst listening to Air by David Lanz & Kristin Amarie that I may have just listened to the best single of year thus far, and there is not much of it left. Air brings Bach back, where it should be, at the fore front of all that in the land of music is good and great.

There are several luminaries within this composition that make this song a veritable Cullinan Diamond of a composition, the remarkable Emmy winning arranger Kurt Bestor, the phenomenal Danish guitar master Lars Hanibal, and someone who I would never have dreamed of writing about, the legendary and still stunning Matthew Fisher, the original keyboardists of non-other than Procol Harum, a band I used to worship as a teen.

From the very first breath of this song it becomes obvious that we are listening to something so magnificent, something so glorious, that if Apollo himself had been listening he would have moved the sun across the sky backwards in honour of it. David Lanz is without doubt one of the greats on the piano, but with his wife Kristen Amarie and her powerful and quite breath taking vocals,  they become two undeniable twin powers of the neo classical music genre.

On this latest single Air, this sublime super group of talent and artistic class, create a whole new realm of brilliance and style, and the performances by all involved has to be one of the most outstanding of the year, maybe even the decade with ease, surely if any song was guaranteed a number one slot and award it must be Air by David Lanz and Kristen Amarie, it is one that you dare not miss!